Tag Archives: pedagogy

Teaching Culture through Tourism: Agency, Authenticity, and Colonialism

In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first years of teaching, a student came up to me after a lecture … read more…

  • dateApril 9, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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“We are not brains on sticks!” Teaching Anthropology with the Senses

In this post, Jess Auerbach talks about motivating students by using the five senses and bringing them “out of their brains and into their bodies.” “We are not brains on sticks,” a group of 11 African Studies students told me … read more…

  • dateFebruary 17, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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What online learning taught me about (online) teaching

In this post, Andrew Walsh reflects on the promises and pitfalls of innovation in the transition to online teaching. What more can be said about the advantages and drawbacks of online teaching? After almost two years of the uncertainty, shifting … read more…

  • dateJanuary 31, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

Feast on this! We have just published a gorgeous new edition of Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, with a full-colour interior and a range of new features for students and instructors. In this blog post, the author, Gillian Crowther, provides background on how the book has changed from the first to the second edition and on some of the important issues raised in its pages. We highly recommend this book not only as a textbook but as a fascinating introduction to thinking about food and culture in very different ways! read more…

  • dateJune 13, 2018
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  • posted byGillian Crowther
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Adventures in Blogging: Bringing Anthropology to the World

For World Anthropology Day, we asked Paul Stoller to share his thoughts on the urgent need for a more public anthropology, as well as his ideas about blogging as one particular way to reach that public. Paul’s forthcoming book, Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media, will be available in April. read more…

  • dateFebruary 15, 2018
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  • posted byAnne
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